Talk:Magic Rooting

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Thanks for this! However, I don't think it's working for Asian phones yet. I tried it and after the fastboot step it hangs at "HTC Magic". Thankfully I was able to shut off my phone and turn it back on, and nothing was affected. Hope for a version that works on Asian builds soon! =)

-Wysie

I got down to step 12, now my phone loops around the sequence where it displays the word "Android"

I rebooted using the "selection", pressing the trackball.
After watching it loop for 10 minutes, I started button mashing.
Could not get it to respond, so, I pulled the battery and let it sit for a few minutes.
Put it back together, pressed the POWER key, and it ended up looping again.
Tried the button mashing to reboot, no response.
Pulled the battery again.
This time I held the BACK key when I pressed the POWER key,
and it came up in the fastboot mode.

repeated steps 8 through 12, same results

I repeated steps 8 through 12, and got the same results.
The screen loops around the display "android".
It swipes a white diagonal bar across the word about 5 times,
pauses for a few seconds, then "blinks" and starts again.

Rooting the Magic/Sapphire (Method 2) disables wi-fi

Same problem

I tried method 1 on my HTC Magic bought in Norway(Europe,) and I had the same result as the people above; it just hangs at the HTC logo (boot.)
Then i tried method 2 which gave me an "ok" on everything, but nothing changed. Not that I could see. Certainly didn't disable my WIFI, so that must have been a fluke. Although, I did wipe my phone just to be sure - maybe that made the difference.

I will try the different image listed above later, and report back.

My reason for doing this is because I want to run the "market-enabler" app. It makes available paid apps, as far as I have understood.
--The Don 13:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Method 1 worked!

HTC Magic Vodafone Australia - method 1 worked, however I haven't done any of the steps after applying the Update. So no "adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-new.img" or anything after
--Jason 14 July 2009

Canadian (Rogers Branded) Magic Update

I have a Canadian Magic sold by Rogers.
It seems to have a problem with the recovery-new.img file.

looks like they don't support the openness android is supposed to be... corporate tools...

The process is successful through step 10

Step 11, command prompt says "Waiting for device"
When I shutdown then restart the device I see the fast boot screen for a moment or two
then the phone automatically displays the ROGERS logo and a black screen
At this point the adb software loses the connection with the device.
adb devices no longer displays my devices serial-number and the command from line 12 returns 'error: device not found

The phone sits on the ROGERS logo indefinitely until hard reset.

Changing the order a bit,

Step 11 revised attempt

shut down phone,
Restart holding back and power
I reach FASTBOOT screen
Displays

Attaching the USB cable at this point changer the header from 'FASTBOOT' to 'FASTBOOT USB'adb devices does not show my device>fastboot boot recovery-new.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY

I get the Rogers screen again. nothing further. I do not get an option to apply update.
Disconnecting USB and popping battery is the only way to exit the rogers screen that Fastboot command opens.

I also tried

Holding the Home and Power as the device starts normally brings up a caution triangle
releasing then depressing the home and power buttons again brings up the Android System Recovery Utility